QUOTE(Friday @ Tue 10th November 2009, 8:47pm)
QUOTE(Malleus @ Tue 10th November 2009, 8:46pm)
Ah! I'm firmly in the Thomas Satz camp; "mental illness" is a fiction dreamt up by medical doctors.
You've been around Wikipedia how long?
How is it possible that you don't believe in mental illness?
Fair point.
To answer you seriously though, I believe that there are some physical conditions that result in behavioural disorders, but not all (or even most) behavioural disorders are rooted in a physical condition, so the concept of "mental illnesss" is meaningless.